Recorded July 5th 2012 at Spencer Studios in Brooklyn NY. Sean Reed trombone, Blaise Siwula clarinet/tenor sax and Kae Reed numerous percussion instruments and toys. Free form improvised music with two canaries singing in the background.

On a recent trip to Lisbon Portugal clarinetist Blaise Siwula was invited to a recording session with the "Lisbon String Trio" featuring violist Ernesto Rodrigues, cellist Miguel Mira and bassist Alvaro Rosso for a session of improvisationa music. The result was a focused and sustained collaboration of sounds from nature in a dance of light. K'AMPOKOL CHE K'AAY (wood music) K'AAY is Mayan for music/canto...K'AMPOL CHE is wood is the result. The track …Read more

Approximately 3 years ago Blaise Siwula and Israel Flores Bravo met for the first time in Mérida, MX and performed as a duo in the Cha'ak'ab Paaxil free jazz and noise Festival. This led to several encuentros in Queretaro, San Miguel and Mexico City. The music has maintained it's freshness and spontaneity during each show. Israel Flores Bravo is a drummer/poet who resides in Queretaro MX performing with a wide variety of improvising musicians. …Read more

This duet is trans Atlantic. Blaise Siwula resides in Brooklyn and Jorge Nuno is from Lisbon, Portugal. They met for the first time on Jan 27th, 2016 and then again on Jan 28th 2016 to complete the recording. Psychedelic guitar with jazz bass clarinet/soprano sax on a journey to new and different territory in a panorama of abstract expressionism. There is a constant shift from foreground to background with linear melodies skating over the reflections in …Read more

by Blaise Siwula & Luciano Troja

After a week of preparing for a show improvising on the 19th century composer Gaetano Daga’s “Union Blues Quick Step” we went to the studio and recorded 52 minutes of spontaneous music without actually referencing the tune the entire session.

Past the Future is the result of the ongoing musical
relationship projection:zero - blaise siwula on reeds,
carsten radtke on guitar and the addition of
joe hertenstein on drums and percussion.
this music was spontaneously composed in wombat studios
on sept 1, 2014.
The is the 2nd projection:zero cd to be released in 6 years.

The Lower East Side Social Club originated in what appears to be the last of the community art buildings in the East Village - ABC No Rio on 156 Rivington St. NYC. Sunday night open sessions at the C.O.M.A. music series led to a few loft parties and then suddenly a recording session and this CD. This is improvised spontaneously composed music that breathes swaggering scruffy New YOrk, the cutting edge Lower East …Read more

by Siwula/Plaks

“TIME IN” recorded at Wombat Studios in Brooklyn, New York on Aug 26th, 2015.These 7 spontaneous compositions have roots in a very broad spectrum of musical genres from gospel to free jazz with many twists and turns from beginning to end.

Blaise Siwula and Shiro Onuma first met in Tokyo in 2005 while performing with pianist Katsuyuki Itakura at the Pit Inn. A return tour to Japan in 2006 found them partnered again in free improvised performances in Tokyo. In 2009 Shiro Onuma was able to visit New York city for a series of performances and this recording date on July 25th at Wombat studios. A sax and drum duet...just straight improvising with rhythm and changing melodies....and …Read more

Inspired by the creations and philosophy of Nikola Tesla Blaise Siwula reeds, Harvey Valdes guitar and Gian Luigi Diana laptop explore an electro/acoustic realm of improvisation. Though cast in the shape of a trio, the musicians deconstruct their sound often ending up together, tumbling hard but light through this dizzying lesson in cooperative 'conflict'.
Based in Brooklyn Tesla Coils has been active in the NYC downtown scene in many different configurations including Karl Berger's …Read more

There are those studio dates that everything seems to work right..well almost.... This was a moment in time that made sense during and after the session. There has to be an enormous amount of listening to make spontaneous composition work and there were 6 ears extended. The studio was a one room space that meant everything was documented ..this was not overdubbed or isolated. Luciano Troja is a master of piano technique and can produce …Read more

Mérida Encuentro - "Mérida Swings" is an extension of "New York Encuentro" (also on cdbaby). This recording is the culmination of a series of concerts and sessions in Mérida MX over the past 3 years. The cover photo is from the show that Blaise Siwula and Armando Martin did in Merida Sept. 2010 organized by Gerardo Alejos Victoria. Saxophonist Blaise Siwula has been active in the NY downtown scene for the past 25 years and …Read more

“d’istante3” is a creative music project bringing together the two Italian improvisers Giancarlo Mazzù and Luciano Troja, and the New York based saxophonist Blaise Siwula.
Giancarlo and Luciano have worked together on the European jazz scene since 2002. Their music is mainly based on the search for new forms and expressions, related to tradition with a solid jazz background, mixed …Read more

New York Encuentro was recorded after several tours with Katsuyuki Itakura and Blaise Siwula in Japan and the USA. Originally formed as “Big Hearts” they found a kindred spirit in Richard Gilman-Opalsky a drummer who also has several degrees in political philosophy. Pianist Katsuyuki Itakura (b. 42) or “Kats” (as he’s more commonly known) has been playing jazz piano in Japan since his teens. He met saxophonist Blaise Siwula at the C.O.M.A. …Read more

Blaise Siwula - Saxophones/Clarinets adherent of free original music in any medium or genre
John Gilbert- guitarist and musical innovationist, serialist of microtones & death metal guitarist.

This partnership began via the internet. John Gilbert guitar is a resident of Tampa, Fl and Blaise Siwula alto/tenor sax and clarinet is in Brooklyn, NY.
They met at Blaise’s studio in Brooklyn with two microphones and a HD recorder and performed the concepts that had …Read more

Projection:Zero began in 2007 in Brooklyn, NY featuring Blaise Siwula alto/tenor sax and clarinet with Carsten Radtke guitar.
This duet has been active since that time performing in NYC, Washington DC, Boston, Brooklyn, Munich, Hamburg, Siblius Romania and Konstanz Germany. They have collaborated with various musicians from around the world (Japan, Belgium, Germany, USA) This recording is where it began and in so many ways the first time is indeed remarkable.

by Blaise Siwula

NoFrillsMusic

NoFrillsMusic

The first solo recording of 2016 in Mérida MX on Calle 58. SPontaneously composed music with solo instrumentation - Clarinet, Alto Sax, Soprano Sax and Alto Clarinet as performed and reorded by Blaise Siwula in the evening of Jan 7, 2016